Interview with Francesco Brenti

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Photo by Annamaria Brenti Francesco Brenti completed his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1988 under the supervision of Richard Stanley. During his career, he worked at MIT (1984-1988), the University of Michigan (1988-1991), the Mittag-Leffler Institute (1991-1992), the University of Perugia (1992-1997), and the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (1997-present). Since 2013, he has been a full professor at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata.” His visiting positions include the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; the University of Marne-la-Vallée, Noisy-le-Grand; the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley; the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm; the Mathematical Research Centre, Aarhus; Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan; MIT; the Mittag-Leffler Institute, Djursholm. His research interests are in algebraic combinatorics, KazhdanLusztig theory, the theory of symmetric functions, and total positivity. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire (since 1997), the European Journal of Combinatorics (since 2008), Algebraic Combinatorics (since 2020), and Bollettino dell’Unione Matematica Italiana (since 2020).